Teen Kills NJ Cop, Wounds Another in Ambush During Weapons Sting

Teen Kills NJ Cop, Wounds Another in Ambush During Weapons Sting

A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in Newark, New Jersey. The slain officer, 26-year-old Joseph Azcona, was part of a team of Newark police detectives and federal agents that had gone to capture a suspect in an illegal weapons sting when the officer was fired on in his vehicle.

Newark weapons sting goes wrong: Teen gunman kills elite NJ detective

An elite unit of city police detectives investigating illegal weapons came under gunfire in a North Ward neighborhood Friday evening, resulting in the death of a 26-year-old officer.